On Friday the truce between Hammas and the IDF ended with an intense aerial bombardment by Israeli F-16 with little regard for civilians in the Gaza ghetto. The IDF ordered Palestinians to vacate the North to the Strip to South increasing the population density to 13,000 per square kilometers. Leaflets accompanied the attacks telling the refugees to flee further south only there is no more Gaza to go. The IDF command strategy seems to have adopted the Ottoman Empire’s Final Solution for the Armenians of marching them into the dessert to die. Netanyahu’s supporters only see two solutions to settle the question of what to do with Palestine.

The desert or the sea.

There is another option.

The human shield.

In 1906 the Balinese royalty decided to combat the Dutch invaders preferring to commit Puputan or mass ritual suicide rather than submit to slavery under William II of Orange. Over a thousand Baliense nobles died that day. The Palestinians are left with a similar. To live to die or to die to live rather than accept the two choices offered by the Zionists.

Holocaust or Death.

There is no safety.

And the world has once more turned its back on Gaza and the West Bank.

The Arab rulers have once more remained silent rather than risk an internal threat to their kingdoms. Greed has always been a good card to play in the Gulf when it comes to Palestine.

Yesterday dozens of Israelis from both the hostage families and anti-war protestors gathered before the IDF headquarters in Jaffa, showing no matter what some people still hope for peace, but always at the expense of the Palestinians and Israeli citizens and not the powerful Hassidim voters who don’t serive in the military.

Yesterday in the New York Times op-ed page Thomas Friedman wrote that it would be best for the IDF to learn America’s unlearnt lessons of 9/11 and fight two wars against intractable foes to defeat. His first suggestion involved the release of hostages for ceasefire without releasing any of the 6000 plus Palestinians in Israeli prisons and supporting the Palestine Authority to resume governence over Gaza. There is no reason for Hammas to trust Netanyahu or the Palestine Authority. Gazans faced with death or death want a fight to the end ie Free Palestine.

Friedman’s second option is to create a more secure barrier a mile within Gaza and comtinue to hit Gaza in retaliation for missile attacks. He also blames Iran and Hezboollah as the masterminds of October 7 revealing the limit of his intelligence due to anti-semitic prejudices.

The Gazans don’t want any talk of Christmas. They want peace. Free Palestine. Free Israel. Free the world from the capitalists.

سلام